I'm not sure what this movie is trying to be. Is it a character drama with intricate and complex characters? Or is it a whodunnit murder mystery?
Without choosing a direction, it fails to be both, and so I can only give it a 6/10. The synopsis also mentions a moral dilemma that Daniel has to work through, but I didn't witness any moral dilemma.
The cinematography is great. The characters are complex and interesting and acting is outstanding. The initial plot is interesting, but then it just tapers off.
Venturing into minor spoiler territory, we spend much of the film just watching people talking about things that happened, which I find a very dull way to tell a story through film. There is only one scene where we actually see a flashback. I wanted more of the storytelling to be like that.
And (into major spoiler territory now) we never really find out what happened by the end, so it's left completely ambiguous. Too ambiguous to make the character drama pay off because we never get confirmation of whether the subtle things we may have noticed during the great acting were truth or lies.
The ambiguity also resulted in me not particularly liking or rooting for any of the characters, or rooting against them for that matter. WIthout any resolution to the characters, their words are just... words.
And on a surface level, we don't get the satisfaction of solving the murder mystery. I was hoping for some kind of big revelation, like Daniel being involved in the death (intentionally or accidentally), or Maleski framing Sandra with his suicide.
Review by gazm2k5BlockedParentSpoilers2024-04-21T20:26:11Z
I'm not sure what this movie is trying to be. Is it a character drama with intricate and complex characters? Or is it a whodunnit murder mystery?
Without choosing a direction, it fails to be both, and so I can only give it a 6/10. The synopsis also mentions a moral dilemma that Daniel has to work through, but I didn't witness any moral dilemma.
The cinematography is great. The characters are complex and interesting and acting is outstanding. The initial plot is interesting, but then it just tapers off.
Venturing into minor spoiler territory, we spend much of the film just watching people talking about things that happened, which I find a very dull way to tell a story through film. There is only one scene where we actually see a flashback. I wanted more of the storytelling to be like that.
And (into major spoiler territory now) we never really find out what happened by the end, so it's left completely ambiguous. Too ambiguous to make the character drama pay off because we never get confirmation of whether the subtle things we may have noticed during the great acting were truth or lies.
The ambiguity also resulted in me not particularly liking or rooting for any of the characters, or rooting against them for that matter. WIthout any resolution to the characters, their words are just... words.
And on a surface level, we don't get the satisfaction of solving the murder mystery. I was hoping for some kind of big revelation, like Daniel being involved in the death (intentionally or accidentally), or Maleski framing Sandra with his suicide.